Almost nine years ago Google began its adventure to conquer the green market of augmented reality. It launched its revolutionary Google Glass, but its augmented reality glasses did not have the expected success and focused on the professional market, whose Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 went on sale in 2020.
Months after launching its new generation of glasses Google showed that they were not going to throw in the towel, and to show that they were going strong they announced the purchase of North, a company specialized in augmented reality glasses and creators of Focals, whose second generation was to arrive in 2020 but whose launch was canceled by the acquisition of Google
First details of ‘Project Iris’
Rumors of Google’s new virtual reality glasses began to sound louder and louder in recent weeks, and now it’s The Verge who hits the jackpot. exclusive the first details through its s trusted sources.
Google is going all out in this race to release the best mixed reality headset where Facebook and Apple also are developing their own alternatives, in addition to Microsoft, which already has its Hololens 2 on the market.
Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 was released in 2020 for starting at $999.
- Shahram Izadi, Senior Director of Engineering who also manages Google’s ARCore technology.
- Eddie Chung, director Senior Product Management formerly running Google Lens.
- Scott Huffman, Vice President and Creator of Google Assistant
- Kurt Akeley, a distinguished engineer and former CTO of light field camera startup Lytro .
- Mark Lucovsky, Senior Director of Operating Systems for AR at Google. He recently held a similar position at Meta.
Project Iris is the internal code of these mixed reality glasses that Google is secretly working to offer augmented reality and virtual reality in the same device. It would have cameras to combine graphics with the real environment . Its design would be closer to ski goggles, so we can expect large and striking glasses.
According to the leak, Google wants to launch these glasses throughout 2024, with which there are still two years of work left. They would currently be based on Android, but Google is developing a new specific operating system for its mixed reality glasses.
The first details report that it would carry a processor customized by Google just like in the Pixel 6, they would not need connection to an external source and that due to power limitations , Google would use its data centers to remotely render some graphics and transmit them to the glasses through an Internet connection.
The Pixel team is involved in the development of the new Google glasses that it seems that will not have the Google Glass name, but it is not clear if they will have the Pixel brand or Google will look for a new name.
The project leader is Clay Bavor, also responsible for
- Project Starline and its realistic holograms. Other very important Google leaders also participate in the project:
Via | The Verge
Note: This article has been indexed to our site. We do not claim legitimacy, ownership or copyright of any of the content above. To see the article at original source
Click Here
.jpg)
